Descriptive Essay On Boardwalk

Thoughts like: what’s going on, and what just happened flashed through my mind while I was hanging there, off of the edge of the Boardwalk. I really didn’t understand why I was dangling by one hand and staring at what seemed to be a cement wall about 20 feet ahead. I heard my mother scream something about my name and I instantly remembered what I had been doing before whatever I’m doing now. I look down and see the big fish below me. As a ten year old, many things seem “big”, but these fish really were overfed, french fry eating monsters. It is Late June, 2011, and I am on an island in the Caribbean, enjoying a vacation with my family. My grandparents moved to the island after my mother and uncle moved out of the house back in Gladstone, Missouri. Now, Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle, Aunt, and Cousin Malea live on the island together in two houses on the same hill. The name of the island is St. Croix, part of the United States Virgin Islands. The USVI are west of Cuba and Haiti. It’s the fifth day of the vacation and we’re visiting the Christiansted Boardwalk for Morgan’s first time. …show more content…
It is wide enough for several people to walk along going each way, and it is common to see jugglers displaying their talents on the land side of the Boardwalk. The land side of the Boardwalk is lined with local restaurants, bars, souvenir vendors, and even a crab racing club. Crab racing is a very fun activity that you’d probably never have heard of if you weren’t talking to a visitor of the islands. The friendly competition begins with choosing your crab from the bucket. The bucket is always full of crabs of varying sizes, but the always the same species. When choosing your crab, you don’t want to pick a crab that is too large because it won’t move as fast as a smaller